What is another word for mire?
755 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ mˈa͡ɪ͡ə], [ mˈaɪə], [ m_ˈaɪə]
"Mire" is a word commonly used to describe a situation, condition or environment that is difficult to navigate, stuck or bogged down. Fortunately, there are several synonyms that can be used in its place. One of the closest synonyms is "quagmire", which also denotes a boggy, marshy or difficult situation. "Slough" can also be used, particularly to refer to swampy or muddy terrain, or a lack of progress or advancement. Other synonyms for mire include "morass", "bog", "swamp" and "fiasco". When trying to describe a slow, burdensome or difficult situation, any of these words can be used interchangeably with "mire" to more accurately capture the particular nuance or context.
Synonyms for Mire:
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n.
• dilemma • dirt • entangle • filth • hell- abyss ,
- bedlam ,
- furnace ,
- gehenna ,
- hades ,
- holocaust ,
- horror ,
- inferno ,
- limbo ,
- morass ,
- oven ,
- purgatory ,
- styx .
- bafflement ,
- barrier ,
- blockade ,
- blockage ,
- complication ,
- congestion ,
- constipation ,
- constraint ,
- damper ,
- deterrent ,
- disadvantage ,
- drawback ,
- encumbrance ,
- entanglement ,
- entrapment ,
- frustration ,
- hindrance ,
- hurdle ,
- impasse ,
- impedance ,
- impediment ,
- inhibition ,
- interruption ,
- obstacle ,
- obstruction ,
- opposition ,
- resistance ,
- restraint ,
- restriction ,
- stoppage .
- mire .
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v.
• bemire- be grime ,
- be grimed ,
- be grimes ,
- be griming ,
- be mire ,
- be mired ,
- be mires ,
- be miring ,
- be-grime ,
- be-grimed ,
- be-grimes ,
- be-griming ,
- be-mire ,
- be-mired ,
- be-mires ,
- be-miring .
- de lay ,
- de laying ,
- de lays ,
- de tain ,
- de tains ,
- de-lay ,
- de-laying ,
- de-lays ,
- de-tain ,
- de-tains ,
- hanged up ,
- hanging up ,
- hangs up ,
- in tern ,
- in terns ,
- in-tern ,
- in-terns ,
- re serve ,
- re served ,
- re serving ,
- re strain ,
- re strained ,
- re straining ,
- re strains ,
- re-serve ,
- re-served ,
- re-serves ,
- re-serving ,
- re-strain ,
- re-strained ,
- re-straining ,
- re-strains ,
- sending up ,
- slowing down ,
- slowing up ,
- slows down ,
- slows up ,
- with held ,
- with hold ,
- with holding ,
- with holds ,
- with-held ,
- with-hold ,
- with-holds .
- caused trouble ,
- causes trouble ,
- de range ,
- de ranged ,
- de ranges ,
- de ranging ,
- de-range ,
- de-ranged ,
- de-ranges ,
- de-ranging ,
- dis order ,
- dis ordered ,
- dis ordering ,
- dis orders ,
- dis unite ,
- dis united ,
- dis unites ,
- dis uniting ,
- dis-order ,
- dis-ordered ,
- dis-ordering ,
- dis-orders ,
- dis-unite ,
- dis-united ,
- dis-unites ,
- dis-uniting ,
- in criminate ,
- in criminated ,
- in criminates ,
- in criminating ,
- in-criminate ,
- in-criminated ,
- in-criminates ,
- in-criminating .
- baffle ,
- bar ,
- block ,
- bottleneck ,
- brake ,
- bung ,
- burden ,
- catch ,
- check ,
- choke ,
- clog ,
- complicate ,
- congest ,
- constipate ,
- constrain ,
- counter ,
- cramp ,
- crimp ,
- cripple ,
- curb ,
- dam ,
- delay ,
- deter ,
- drag ,
- fetter ,
- foul ,
- frustrate ,
- hamper ,
- hamstring ,
- handicap ,
- hinder ,
- impair ,
- impede ,
- inhibit ,
- interrupt ,
- jam ,
- obstruct ,
- oppose ,
- paralyze ,
- plug ,
- resist ,
- restrain ,
- restrict ,
- snag ,
- snarl ,
- stay ,
- stop ,
- thwart .
- in sinuate ,
- in sinuated ,
- in sinuates ,
- in sinuating ,
- in-sinuate ,
- in-sinuates ,
- in-sinuating ,
- laid at door ,
- laid at one door ,
- laid at one's door ,
- laid at ones door ,
- laid door ,
- laid one door ,
- laid one's door ,
- laid ones door ,
- lay at one door ,
- lay at ones door ,
- lay door ,
- lay one door ,
- lay one's door ,
- lay ones door ,
- laying at door ,
- laying at one door ,
- laying at one's door ,
- laying at ones door ,
- laying door ,
- laying one door ,
- laying one's door ,
- laying ones door ,
- lays at door ,
- lays at one door ,
- lays at one's door ,
- lays at ones door ,
- lays door ,
- lays one door ,
- lays one's door ,
- lays ones door ,
- pointed finger at ,
- pointing finger at ,
- points finger at ,
- re late ,
- re-lated .
- de note ,
- de noted ,
- de notes ,
- de noting ,
- de-note ,
- de-noted ,
- de-notes ,
- de-noting ,
- in corporate ,
- in corporates ,
- in-corporate ,
- in-corporates ,
- points to ,
- pre occupied ,
- pre occupies ,
- pre occupy ,
- pre suppose ,
- pre supposed ,
- pre supposes ,
- pre supposing ,
- pre-occupied ,
- pre-occupies ,
- pre-occupy ,
- pre-occupying ,
- pre-suppose ,
- pre-supposed ,
- pre-supposes ,
- pre-supposing ,
- re quire ,
- re quired ,
- re quires ,
- re quiring ,
- re-quire ,
- re-quired ,
- re-quires ,
- re-quiring ,
- rivetted ,
- rivetting ,
- ropes in ,
- roping in ,
- snarling up ,
- snarls up ,
- wrap in ,
- wrapping in ,
- wrapping up in ,
- wraps in ,
- wraps up in ,
- wrapt in ,
- wrapt up in .
- bring screeching halt ,
- bringing screeching halt ,
- bringing to screeching halt ,
- brings screeching halt ,
- brings to screeching halt ,
- brought screeching halt ,
- brought to screeching halt ,
- chokes off ,
- closes off ,
- de crease ,
- de creased ,
- de creases ,
- de creasing ,
- de-crease ,
- de-creased ,
- de-creases ,
- de-creasing ,
- post pone ,
- post pones ,
- post-pones ,
- re duce ,
- re duces ,
- re-duce ,
- re-duces ,
- retardated ,
- retardating .
- de feat ,
- de feats ,
- de-feat ,
- de-feats ,
- embogged ,
- embogging ,
- embogs ,
- re verse ,
- re versing ,
- re-verse ,
- re-versed .
- anchored it ,
- anchoring it ,
- anchors it ,
- back water ,
- back watered ,
- back watering ,
- back waters ,
- back-watered ,
- back-watering ,
- back-waters ,
- backwatered ,
- backwatering ,
- eased off ,
- eases off ,
- eases up ,
- easing up ,
- hit brakes ,
- hits brakes ,
- hits the brakes ,
- hitting brakes ,
- hitting the brakes ,
- keeping waiting ,
- keeps waiting ,
- kept waiting ,
- lets down flaps ,
- letted down flaps ,
- letting down flaps ,
- loses speed ,
- loses steam ,
- losing speed ,
- losing steam ,
- lost speed ,
- lost steam ,
- re lax ,
- re-lax ,
- reduced speed ,
- reduces speed ,
- reducing speed ,
- reining in ,
- winded down ,
- winds down ,
- wound down .
Other synonyms:
- slime .
- muddy .
Other relevant words:
- Bogged ,
- Bogging ,
- Downs ,
- Riveted ,
- bemire ,
- bring to screeching halt ,
- buttonhole ,
- buttonholed ,
- buttonholes ,
- buttonholing ,
- choke off ,
- choked off ,
- choking off ,
- close off ,
- closed off ,
- closing off ,
- detain ,
- downed ,
- downing ,
- embroil ,
- hang up ,
- iced ,
- implicate ,
- interned ,
- interning ,
- involve ,
- involved ,
- lay at door ,
- lay at one's door ,
- point finger at ,
- point to ,
- pointed to ,
- pointing to ,
- retard ,
- retardate ,
- retardates ,
- rope in ,
- roped in ,
- send up ,
- sends up ,
- sent up ,
- slow ,
- slow down ,
- slow up ,
- slowed down ,
- slowed up ,
- snarl up ,
- snarled up ,
- withhold ,
- withholds ,
- wrap up in ,
- wrapped in ,
- wrapped up in .
- Besmoke ,
- Distain ,
- Everglade ,
- Feculence ,
- GAUM ,
- GLOP ,
- Gombo ,
- Holm ,
- Leavings ,
- Marish ,
- Orts ,
- Quag ,
- Slubber ,
- Swale ,
- Sweepings ,
- addle ,
- adhere ,
- affect ,
- alluvium ,
- ball up ,
- baygall ,
- become enmeshed ,
- become entangled ,
- become involved ,
- become meshed ,
- become tangled ,
- befoul ,
- bemud ,
- besmirch ,
- bilge ,
- blacken ,
- blow ,
- bobble ,
- bog ,
- bog down ,
- boggy ,
- boggy earth ,
- boggy ground ,
- bollix ,
- bollix up ,
- bollocks ,
- botch ,
- botch up ,
- bottom ,
- bottomland ,
- brand ,
- buffalo wallow ,
- bumble ,
- bungle ,
- catch-22 ,
- cesspool ,
- chaos ,
- clay ,
- cleave ,
- cling ,
- cloaca ,
- cloaca maxima ,
- cloudy ,
- cohere ,
- comprise ,
- confuse ,
- contain ,
- convolute ,
- corner ,
- decelerate ,
- defame ,
- defile ,
- dilemma ,
- dingy ,
- dirt ,
- dirty ,
- drain ,
- dregs ,
- drilling mud ,
- dross ,
- dump ,
- dust ,
- embarrass ,
- embrace ,
- enmesh ,
- ensnare ,
- entail ,
- envelop ,
- excrement ,
- falloff ,
- fix ,
- flounder ,
- flub ,
- fluff ,
- fluid ,
- foul-up ,
- fumble ,
- garbage ,
- garbage dump ,
- get stranded ,
- get stuck ,
- goo ,
- goop ,
- grime ,
- grind to a halt ,
- grunge ,
- guck ,
- gumbo ,
- gunge ,
- gunk ,
- improper ,
- impute shame to ,
- inapplicable ,
- inappropriate ,
- irrelevant ,
- jackpot ,
- junk ,
- lees ,
- louse up ,
- manure ,
- marais ,
- marshy ,
- mat ,
- meadow ,
- mere ,
- mess ,
- mess-up ,
- miry ,
- mishandle ,
- moor ,
- moorland ,
- moss ,
- muck ,
- muck up ,
- mucky ,
- mud ,
- muddied ,
- muddle ,
- murky ,
- offal ,
- ooze ,
- ordure ,
- peat bog ,
- pickle ,
- pigwash ,
- pollution ,
- post ,
- precipitate ,
- predicament ,
- quandary ,
- quicksand ,
- rattrap ,
- refuse ,
- reprehend ,
- residue ,
- rubbish ,
- run aground ,
- scrap ,
- screw up ,
- scum ,
- sediment ,
- septic tank ,
- set back ,
- sewage ,
- sewer ,
- show up ,
- silt ,
- sink ,
- sink in ,
- slab ,
- slabber ,
- slack ,
- slacken ,
- slackness ,
- slap ,
- slip ,
- slob ,
- slobber ,
- slop ,
- slosh ,
- slouch ,
- sloughy ,
- slur ,
- slurry ,
- smear ,
- smoke ,
- smudge ,
- snare ,
- soil ,
- soot ,
- sough ,
- splosh ,
- spoil ,
- squash ,
- stall ,
- stick ,
- stigmatize ,
- stodge ,
- sully ,
- sump ,
- swampy ,
- swill ,
- taiga ,
- tarnish ,
- trample under foot ,
- trap ,
- trash ,
- tread under foot ,
- turbid ,
- unsuitable ,
- vilify ,
- wallow ,
- wash ,
- waste ,
- welter .
- Back-water ,
- Reefed ,
- Reefing ,
- backwater ,
- backwaters ,
- ease off ,
- ease up ,
- eased up ,
- easing off ,
- hit the brakes ,
- keep waiting ,
- let down flaps ,
- lose speed ,
- lose steam ,
- reduce speed ,
- rein in ,
- reined in ,
- reins in ,
- stunting ,
- wind down ,
- winding down .
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How to use "Mire" in context?
Mire is a deep and oppressive feeling of hatred, envy and disgust. It can be caused by a lack of fulfillment or by a powerful rival. Mire can quickly become overwhelming and can lead to feelings of despair and self-loathing.
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Forward Entailment
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Reverse Entailment
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Noun, singular or mass
quagmire.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Independent
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Hyponym for Mire:
n.
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state
difficulty.
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state
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